Cancer of Many Colors

CMC Dedication

Offering support to all cancer patients, regardless of race, gender, age, ethnicity, national origin, and socioeconomic status to all counties in South Carolina. Small Gift Program was created to help patients undergoing treatment that cannot work needing help with basic living expenses such as rent, utility bills, food, car payment, and transportation to and from treatment.

Giving HOPE to families through financial assistance from our Small Gift Program to help patients undergoing treatment that cannot work needing help with basic living expenses. Bringing awareness to our communities that we are all a link in the chain of HOPE and cancer impacts all of us.

who we are

Cancer of Many Colors, Inc. is a non-profit Lexington, SC based organization dedicated to helping local cancer survivors with their daily living expenses and emergency needs.

Founded in 2014 by Paulette Criscione, Cancer of Many Colors, Inc. (CMC) was created in honor of the Criscione family to help bring awareness to all cancers. Most cancers have its own color. For the Crisciones, Paulette and her father John were diagnosed with breast cancer (pink). John passed away in 1981. Her brother Richard diagnosed with leukemia (orange) died in 2007 and brother Jay, diagnosed with throat cancer (burgundy/ivory) in 2006 passed away with bile duct cancer (Kelly Green) in 2009. Paulette was diagnosed with lung (white) in 2011. Both Paulette and Jay tested positive for BRCA 2, a genetic mutation. Hence, Cancer of Many Colors was created.

Cancer is universal. In one way or another it impacts all.

Paulette with brothers jay (left) and Richard (right)

As a survivor and a caregiver, Paulette knows the financial burden cancer treatments can place on individuals and their families. She started the CMC Foundation, to raise funds for others in her local community, to reduce the financial hardships that cancer can cause. She also takes the stewardship of the public’s trust very seriously when raising funds. With the community's continued dedication, Cancer of Many Colors continues to grow as an organization to become a significant resource for the Midlands.

PAULETTE WITH BROTHERS JAY (LEFT) AND RICHARD (RIGHT)

The same cancer type in one individual is very different from that cancer in another individual. Within a single type of cancer, such as breast cancer, researchers are discovering subtypes that each requires a different treatment approach. As researchers learn more and more about the nature of the disease, we are reminded of how complex it is, and how much more we need to know. But whatever the specific type, all cancer profoundly challenges the men and women who are fighting it. Their struggle touches all of the people in their lives: husbands, wives, and partners; parents, children, sisters and brothers; caregivers; co-workers, friends and neighbors.

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